Taste and obesity

Claude Marcel Hladik (1) , Emmanuel Cohen (1) , Patrick Pasquet (1)

1 EAE - Eco-Anthropologie et Ethnobiologie

In order to analyze the relationships between taste perceptions and obesity, we will (I) present the main aspects of taste perception: psychophysical (mostly nerve impulses) and psychocultural dimensions, (II) specifically describe responses to sugars and fats, (III) explore the ethnic variability of taste responses, (IV) assess psychocultural dimensions of taste perception which would promote a loss of weight, and (V) show how psychophysical taste perceptions could interfere with the weight loss program throughout the psychocultural dimension.

Mots clés: taste perception; PROP; neophobia

Domaines: Anthropologie biologique; Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Claude Marcel Hladik, Emmanuel Cohen, Patrick Pasquet. Taste and obesity. 2014. ⟨hal-00985985v1⟩